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by Howard G. Buffett · 2 Apr 2018 · 350pp · 109,521 words
too many agents to staff inland checkpoints instead of stopping smugglers and illegal border crossers right at the border. BP uses a layered strategy called Defense in Depth that means there are roadside checkpoints as well as permanent checkpoints well inland of the border. Today, by law, only authorized federal agents can actually
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix · 1 Jan 2000 · 1,056pp · 275,211 words
, without inflicting any serious damage on the American invasion force.96 After desperate fighting, in which Japanese ground commanders once again failed to prepare adequate defenses in depth, Saipan, Guam, and Tinian fell and quickly became forward U.S. bases for long-range B-29 (“Superfortress”) bombers. The capture of Saipan on July
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Fick, Nathaniel C.(October 3, 2005) Hardcover
by Nathaniel C. Fick · 14 Apr 2006
low overcast threatening rain. Helicopters could not fly under the weather, and jets above it couldn’t provide accurate close air support. Facing a coordinated defense-in-depth, with little idea of what lay to the north, the colonel decided to pull back two kilometers and set up a hasty defense on the
Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11: The Pursuit of Al Qa'ida Since 9/11
by Seth G. Jones · 29 Apr 2012 · 649pp · 172,080 words
send messages, such as blankets and smoke and flares. The enemy, led by Mansour and supported by al Qa’ida fighters, planned to employ a “defense in depth” strategy if they were attacked, inflicting as many casualties as possible on American and allied soldiers instead of denying access. They would permit U.S
Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
by Robert H. Latiff · 25 Sep 2017 · 158pp · 46,353 words
, March 14, 2013. Echoing the concerns of senior combat leaders: Janine Davidson, “The Warrior Ethos at Risk: H. R. McMaster’s Remarkable Veterans Day Speech,” Defense in Depth blog, Council on Foreign Relations, November 18, 2014, https://fortunascorner.com/2014/11/19/the-warrior-ethos-at-risk-h-r-mcmasters-remarkable-veterans-day
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tried to use OCO funds: Emerson Brooking and Janine Davidson, “How the Overseas Contingency Operations Fund Works—and Why Congress Wants to Make It Bigger,” Defense in Depth blog, Council on Foreign Relations, June 16, 2015, https://www.geopolintelligence.com/how-the-overseas-contingency-operations-fund-works-and-why-congress-wants-to-make
The Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan · 1 Jan 1959 · 439pp · 105,137 words
guns and other equipment if his plan of assault was to succeed, for Merville was no ordinary battery. Around it ranged a formidable series of defenses in depth. To get to the heart of the battery—four heavy guns in massive concrete emplacements—the 9th would have to pass through mine fields and
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by Mark Hertsgaard · 15 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 48,727 words
protect Louisiana if we want to," said van Heerden, who, in his book The Storm, urged a three-layered approach to hurricane protection known as "defense in depth." "For your inner layer of defense," van Heerden told me, "you put hardened levees or flood walls in front of major population centers [such as
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
by Steven Pressfield · 5 May 2014 · 531pp · 139,948 words
, inevitably, one of scores of blockhouses and bricked-up strongpoints lining the corridor of minefields and barbed-wire entanglements that divided Jerusalem. A strategy of defense-in-depth is not possible in a nation that is only nine miles wide at its waist and whose commercial concentrations and population centers lie within artillery
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wisdom on to their clients, the Egyptians. On top of this, Soviet engineers have overlaid the Russian system. Russian doctrine is linear. Its principle is defense in depth. You can recognize a Soviet position from the air by its multiple trench lines, one behind the other. In the rear of the first three
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam
by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway · 19 Oct 1991 · 496pp · 162,951 words
behind their lines. There, taking up positions that gave them good fields of fire, the remnants of the 2nd Platoon men provided some measure of defense in depth to Charlie Company. But the loss of four men crossing the clearing convinced me that further internal movements were inadvisable until we reduced the enemy
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
is simplicity. Of course, many systems are naturally complex, but the simpler a system can be designed, the more secure it is likely to be. Defense in Depth: The basic idea is that one vulnerability shouldn’t destroy the whole system. In computer systems, the place you encounter this the most is multifactor
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multifactor systems might include a biometric such as a fingerprint, or a small USB device you have to plug into your computer. For noncomputer systems, defense in depth is anything that prevents a single vulnerability from becoming a successful hack. It might be a deadbolt on your door in addition to the lock
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mind, from our survival instincts to our craving for social status. They can be used against anyone. Protecting ourselves from cognitive hacks requires society-wide defense-in-depth: spanning education, regulation and—especially online—technical solutions. As digital technology occupies ever more of our attention, cognitive hacking is increasingly taking place by means
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Cyber Grand Challenge, 228–29 de minimis rule, 249 debt financing, 101–2 decoy prices, 189 deep-fake technology, 192–93, 221 Deep Patient, 213 defense in depth, 59–60 Delaware Loophole, 130 DeSantis, Ron, 132–33 design process, 58–61 financial exchange hacks and, 85 simplicity in, 59, 80 threat modeling, 62
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